It was vastly better than I expected. If we can do the same as tonight for the rest of the season, ie dominate and nearly always beat the sides who are bang midtable or worse, we'll probably be ok, almost regardless of what happens in the handful of really tough fixtures.

Ayling dogshit, needs dropping and if Berardi was available he would have been, everyone else bloody awesome. Roofe and Bamford growing into their roles. Potus and Philips fucking imperious. Forshaw can really only replace Klich for me not Philips, but he was very good today too

The Chief: "trust me, you can't have too many years with a club like Leeds."

Phillips looked a class above their whole team. Obviously Pontus was superb and Pablo better than he’s been for a while but Kalvin should really be the first name on the team-sheet from now on. If we drop him for Forshaw we deserve to stay in this division.

LSD&2Es wrote:Ayling dogshit, needs dropping and if Berardi was available he would have been, everyone else bloody awesome. Roofe and Bamford growing into their roles. Potus and Philips fucking imperious. Forshaw can really only replace Klich for me not Philips, but he was very good today too

LSD&2Es wrote:Ayling dogshit, needs dropping and if Berardi was available he would have been, everyone else bloody awesome. Roofe and Bamford growing into their roles. Potus and Philips fucking imperious. Forshaw can really only replace Klich for me not Philips, but he was very good today too

LSD&2Es wrote:Ayling dogshit, needs dropping and if Berardi was available he would have been, everyone else bloody awesome. Roofe and Bamford growing into their roles. Potus and Philips fucking imperious. Forshaw can really only replace Klich for me not Philips, but he was very good today too

I've come to the conclusion he's an easy target. His limitations are there for all to see in the way we play, namely an uncanny ability to end up with the ball stuck under his feet and end up under pressure and positional issues when isolated, but he's brilliant at coming into the middle of the park with his head up and does plenty to help us work some space in the attacking 3rd. Thought he had a generally positive day today but there were still 5+ moments where is very easy to get on his back (penalty included, stupid that one).

Late dramatic winners aside, I think that 2nd is my favourite goal so far this season. Daft twats behind me aren't fans of Bielsaball (wanted us to run down time in the corners immediately after their goal), screaming for Cooper to step into the 30yards of storage ahead of him. Instead 3 or 4 passes between Cooper and Jansson gained the same territory and enabled Ayling to find a path to run into midfield, Alioski to find the freedom of the park and Harrison to also be completely free. Sublime football.

Also special mention for Hernandez playing right wing back / a proper use of the 3-3-1-3 before the end:Ayling Jansson CooperHernandez Phillips AlioskiShackletonRoberts Roofe Harrison

Penalty aside, that solution instead of Phillips into the back 3 really helped Ayling and didn't prevent him getting forward.

Phillips was majestic start to finish and my MoM, Jannson very good, Cooper quietly better (though stats suggest Jansson was better than I'm giving him credit for). Harrison had his best game for a very long time.